Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Plastics
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Management of waste in India: performance audit
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India the for the year ended March 2007 containing the results of the Performance Audit on
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Indian plastic industry - challenging times
A combination of high tax structure, debatable import duty policies, age-old legislations, lack of duty protection coupled with the overall economic slow down, presents a grim outlook for the plastics industry
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Need to evolve a responsible 'bag policy'
The initiatives taken, both by Wal-Mart and Progressive Bag Affiliates need to be replicated across the world, including India. Imposing a ban on plastic bags as being advocated by some critics is not the solution
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Delhi Govt. bans poly bags in main markets finally
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has finally banned use of plastic bags in the Capital
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Concern at use-and-throw plastic products being part of domestic waste
V. Venkatasubramanian Rummaging: Plastic waste accounts for major chunk of the garbage dumped at the Rengaswamykuluam transfer point in Kancheepuram. KANCHEEPURAM: A large quantity of
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Municipalities urged to recycle plastic
After imposing a ban on the use of plastic carry bags in the state, the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has now asked different municipalities to have their own plastic recycling units. Moreover, airports, railways and shopping malls will have to make arrangements for collection of plastic wastes and send them to plastic recycling units.
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Climate champ to campaign against plastics
Vidya Venkat CHENNAI: K.N. Shruti, a Std. XII student of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, has returned from a three-week expedition to the Arctic recently. This Young Indian Climate Champion, selected by the British Council through a nationwide competition, plans to campaign against the use of plastics in the city, among others, to tackle climate change and global warming.
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Why are they hazardous
KY Vijay Kumar | ENS Chennai, PLASTIC is an environmental hazard chiefly because it is nonbiodegradable. It cannot be decomposed by micro-organisms or by any biological process. It is a synthetic polymer that can be moulded into complex shapes. Elasticity makes it extremely popular as a packaging material.
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A tough law was killed five years ago
T Muruganandam | ENS Chennai, THE only serious attempt to regulate the proliferation of disposable plastics in the State was made in 2002, when the then AIADMK government introduced a Bill on the subject in the Assembly.
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Will we ever dispose of plastics? - glaring lack of political
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Chennai, A tough law that bans lighting up in public places has put smokers on notice. City Police Commissioner R Sekar intends to enforce the law sometime this week. Whether or not he manages to do so, at least a step has been taken in the right direction.